By Jerry Scutts
Undoubtedly the simplest American fighter of worldwide struggle 2, the North American P-51 Mustang served in huge numbers with the USAAF’s 8th Air strength from past due 1943 until eventually VE Day, and was once the mount of such a lot aces in-theatre. Charged with the accountability of escorting large formations of B-17 Flying castle and B-24 Liberator bombers on sunlight raids deep into Germany, the P-51 pilots of a number of the fighter teams in the ’Mighty Eighth’ went nose to nose with the cream of the Luftwaffe’s fighter squadrons for keep watch over of the skies over the 3rd Reich.
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A short time later, a few military vehicles approached the raiders. With a brief bur'st of fire, Klingenberg's men took possession of the carriers. Aided by an ethnic German who volunteered to serve as guide and interpreter, Klingenberg set out wi\h his soldiers. Yugoslavs surrendered vvdthout a freshly motorized unit for the Yugoslavian war ministry. It was a hellish journey past smoldering barr'acks and bombed-out tenements cloaked with the stench of death. The men r'eached the ministry empty shell.